Interested in how carbs and fat are metabolized in the worm?
Check out the review ‘Lipid and Carbohydrate Metabolism in Caenorhabditis elegans‘ in GENETICS WormBook by Jennifer L Watts and Michael Ristow. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - October 6, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: external website news paper of interest wormbook Source Type: news
Registering Lab, Strain and Allele designations
If you would like to register a new lab and/or receive strain and allele designations please consult the WormBase documentation page here. This page also describes the nomenclature that WormBase requires and uses to describe genes, alleles, strains, gene knockouts, modifiers (suppressors, revertants and enhancers), and chromosomal aberrations (duplications, deficiencies, inversions and translocations) . (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - October 5, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication news tutorials allele new labs nomenclature strain Source Type: news
Check out the experimental evolution chapter in WormBook!
Read about the the goals and major foci of experimental evolution with C. elegans and related species, in the chapter ‘Experimental Evolution with Caenorhabditis Nematodes‘ in WormBook GENETICS, by Henrique Teotónio et al. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - September 29, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication external website news paper of interest wormbook Source Type: news
Phenotype micropublication submission form now live!
Do you have phenotype results that you want to micropublish? A beta version of the phenotype submission form is now available online on micropublication.org. Try it out, submit your data here! Questions? Reach out to us at contact@micropublication.org. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - September 1, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication external website news micropublication Source Type: news
WormBase is updated to WS260
The 260th version of WormBase has been released! The release notes that are published with each new release gives you various statistics about the data in the current release as well as providing a quick peak at the breath and depth of the data in WormBase. It also lists all the data files available for download at our FTP site. Check all of these out and let us know if you have any suggestions or questions! (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - August 29, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication news release notes data release WS260 Source Type: news
Staying up-to-date with new features and data at WormBase
WormBase offers a number of ways to stay up-to-date with new features and datasets. Here are a few.
1. The WormBase Blog
Right here — we’ll post everything on the blog. Entries of general interest will also cross-post to the main WormBase site. You can also subscribe to receive notice of all new posts to the blog by email.
2. Twitter
WormBase is on Twitter, at, erm, @wormbase. On Twitter we post news items, service status updates, answer queries, and occasionally live blog meetings.
3. The announce@wormbase.org email list
If you prefer email, subscribe to the very low traffic WormBase Announce Mailing list. Her...
Source: WormBase - July 26, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Todd Harris Tags: news outreach Source Type: news
Publish summer student ’s results quickly and easily in Micropublication:Biology!
Are your summer student’s projects coming to an end? Did they obtain a solid research finding that does not fit into a larger narrative context? Micropublish their results in Micropublication:biology. Give the students citable credit for their work. Give mentors credit for their effort.
Need additional information? Contact us at micropublications@wormbase.org, we will guide you through the process. It’s fast and easy.
Type of Micropublications include: New finding – including new reagents; Negative result; Replication – successful; Replication – unsuccessful; Commodity validation. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - July 25, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Todd Harris Tags: news Source Type: news
WormBase release information
WormBase follows a two month release cycle. Bug fixes, tool improvements, curation of additional data, corrections to data, testing of the website, all happen prior to a new release of WormBase. For every new release, new data from manual curation and from automated pipelines are added. The version or release number is displayed on the WormBase home page at the top, for eg., WS259 is the current release of WormBase. If you are looking at data sets periodically, please note the version/release you are looking at, because data may have changed between releases. A list of all the data and numbers are available in th...
Source: WormBase - July 20, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication news Source Type: news
Check out SPELL for microarray, tiling array and RNA seq data
SPELL (Serial Pattern of Expression Levels Locator) is a query-driven search engine for microarray, RNAseq and tiling array data. Given a small set of query genes, SPELL can identify which datasets are most informative for these genes, then within these datasets, additional genes are identified with expression profiles most similar to the query set. SPELL contains more than 5000 experiments from over 300 plus datasets.
You can also download datasets by following the ‘Dataset Listing‘ link from the side menu bar on the SPELL home page. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - June 29, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication news tools Source Type: news
WormBase Workshop presentation slides at IWM 2017 available
WormBase hosted a workshop at the recently concluded International Worm Meeting at UCLA, which included presentations on community curation, Micropublications and the demonstration of tools for simple queries, data mining and data visualization. The slides for these presentations are available here. The slides are also available from the WormBase FTP site. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - June 26, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication meetings news tutorials Source Type: news
Come visit us at the IWM 2017!
WormBase has a number of activities planned at the IWM 2017 at UCLA. A plenary talk will give an overview about the exciting things that have been implemented or planned for WormBase. Come to the WormBase workshop (Thursday, June 22, 1.00pm-2.30pm, Northwest Auditorium) to learn about data mining tools in WormBase, and how to contribute your data. Come to the Micropublication booth (#102) to learn how to micropublish your unpublished data! WormBase staff will be present at the WormBase booth (#103) to answer any questions and to assist you with any queries you need help with. We look forward to hearing your suggestio...
Source: WormBase - June 16, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication community meetings news IWM Source Type: news
New Chapter of WormBook in Genetics: The Natural Biotic Environment of Caenorhabditis elegans.
Check out the latest WormBook chapter in Genetics: The Natural Biotic Environment of Caenorhabditis elegans, by Hinrich Schulenburg and Marie-Anne Félix. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - May 16, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication news Ecology evolution wormbook Source Type: news
Call for gene expression data
Are you presenting gene expression data at the upcoming IWM? Do you have gene expression data you never published and you always wanted to? Publish them now! Fill out this form on WormBase and get credit for your work. It’s fast and easy. We will send your work out for review and if approved it will get a DOI and published right away so you can get cited! Visit www.micropublicationbiology.org to see some Micropublication examples. Submissions received before May 20th will have a chance to be featured in the Micropublication Booklet that will be distributed at Micropublication: biology, Knudra, Nemametrix, and WormBa...
Source: WormBase - April 28, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication community news micropublication Source Type: news
The Worm Lab Project @ The WBG
Check out the The Worm Lab Project at the Worm Breeder’s Gazette that seeks to capture the rich history and scientific spirit of the C. elegans research community by publishing brief interviews with lab heads and principal investigators.
We invite all PIs/lab heads of laboratories registered with the CGC to take the Worm Lab Project interview! We will publish submissions on a rolling basis.
(Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - April 25, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication community news Worm Breeder's Gazette Worm Community Forum Source Type: news
Nemagenetag collection
In the framework of the European Union funded Nemagenetag project, several labs worked together from 2003 to 2007 to generate a genome-wide collection of molecularly characterized Mos1 insertion mutants for the C. elegans community. The relevance and utility of this collection of >13000 strains has been drastically reduced with the advent of CRISPR. Requests for strains have dropped to an average of less than one a month. The Nemagenetag members consider that the cost involved in maintaining the collection is no longer warranted. Any laboratory interested in the collection (available in duplicate) should contact us befo...
Source: WormBase - April 3, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication external website news Nemagenetag Source Type: news
